Pipeline Safety Beyond Keystone
Expanding the Public Spotlight
AGENDA
Hotel Monteleone, New Orleans, Louisiana – November 21st & 22nd, 2013
| DAY ONE –Thursday, November 21st | |
| 9:00 – 9:10 | Welcoming Comments – Queen Anne Ballroom |
| 9:10 – 9:30 | Opening Address – Queen Anne Ballroom |
| Cynthia Quarterman, Administrator, Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration | |
| 9:30 – 10:00 | General Session – Queen Anne Ballroom |
| With high profile incidents, and calls by many for improved regulations, what’s the holdup? • Carl Weimer, Executive Director, Pipeline Safety Trust • Linda Daugherty, Deputy Associate Administrator for Field Operations, PHMSA | |
| 10:00 – 10:15 | Food For Thought Session – Queen Anne Ballroom |
| Why we think more emphasis should be placed on Consequences – Carl Weimer, Executive Director, PST The problems that come from people focusing too much on Consequences – Bill Byrd, RCP | |
| 10:15 – 10:30 | Break |
| 10:30 – 11:50 | General Session – Queen Anne Ballroom |
| Public Awareness Extravaganza – Can you have Public Awareness without Industry and Regulator Awareness? | |
| • The industry knows what they want us to know, do they care what we want to know? Carl Weimer, Executive Director, Pipeline Safety Trust • What did the inspections of Public Awareness programs find? – Harold Winnie, Central Region CATS Manager, PHMSA • Benchmarks – Do we know where we are trying to go? Jim Antonevich, President, Metrix Matrix Inc • Public Transparency and information holes? – Samya Lutz, Outreach Coordinator, Pipeline Safety Trust • Industry efforts to listen to public desires – Shawn Lyon, Vice President of Operations, Marathon Pipe Line LLC | |
| 11:50 – 12:15 | Food For Thought Session – Real Public Involvement – Queen Anne Ballroom |
| • Connie Jackson, City Manager, San Bruno, CA – A California Pipeline Safety Trust • Carl Weimer, Executive Director, Pipeline Safety Trust – A Great Lakes Pipeline Safety Trust | |
| 12:15 – 1:30 | Lunch – Royal Ballroom |
| 1:30 – 1:45 | Afternoon Keynote – Queen Anne Ballroom |
| Ed Pawlowski, Mayor, Allentown, Pennsylvania – The Need for a Mayors’ Council on Pipeline Safety | |
| 1:45 – 3:00 | Breakout Session – Queen Anne Ballroom |
| Local authority – what’s allowed / what’s pre-empted? Why so much confusion? • Rebecca Craven, Program Director, Pipeline Safety Trust • Tom FitzGerald, Director, Kentucky Resource Council • Carolyn Elefant, Principal, Law Offices of Carolyn Elefant | |
| 1:45 – 3:00 | Breakout Session – Orleans Room |
| Tales from the field – Meet the PHMSA CATS (Community Assistance & Technical Services) Team • Christie Murray, Program Development Director, PHMSA • Joseph Mataich, Southern Region • William Lowry, Southwest Region • Karen Gentile, Eastern Region • Tom Finch, Western Region • Harold Winnie, Central Region | |
| 3:00 – 3:15 | Break |
| 3:15 – 4:30 | Breakout Session – Queen Anne Ballroom |
| Gathering lines – Thousands of new miles. Unregulated? Really?? • Don McCoy, Director of Pipeline Safety, Access Midstream • David Lykken, Pipeline Safety Director, Washington Utilities & Transportation Commission & Secretary, NAPSR • Josh Joswick, Colorado Front Range Organizer, Earthworks Oil & Gas Accountability Project | |
| 3:15 – 4:30 | Breakout Session – Orleans Room |
| Major pipeline expansions proposed – routing, conversions, reversals – Is a new regulatory scheme needed? • Charles Lesniak, Environmental Officer, City of Austin, Texas • Richard Kuprewicz, President, Accufacts Inc • David Johnson, Consultant, Energy Transfer • Alan Mayberry, Deputy Associate Administrator for Policy and Programs, PHMSA | |
| 5:30 – 7:00 | Pipeline Safety Trust Board of Directors’ Reception for Attendees – Vieux Carre Room |
| DAY TWO – Friday, November 22nd | |
| 8:00 – 9:00 | Breakfast – Queen Anne Ballroom |
| 9:00 – 9:20 | Day 2 Keynote – Queen Anne Ballroom |
| Tim Felt, President & CEO, Colonial Pipeline | |
| 9:20 – 10:30 | Breakout Session – Queen Anne Ballroom |
| Who oversees the regulators? Is PHMSA’s oversight of state efforts adequate? What is happening with NTSB’s call for more meaningful oversight metrics? • Robert Miller, Pipeline Safety Supervisor, Arizona Corporation Commission & Vice Chair, NAPSR • Scott Macey, Program Director, Office of Inspector General, USDOT • Austin Yang, Deputy City Attorney, San Francisco, CA • Alan Mayberry, Deputy Associate Administrator for Policy and Programs, PHMSA | |
| 9:20 – 10:30 | Breakout Session – Orleans Room |
| Pipeline Safety Management Systems – A real pathway to safer pipelines or just a lot of incomprehensible jibber jabber? • Linda Daugherty, Deputy Associate Administrator for Field Operations, PHMSA • Stacey Gerard, Public Representative, PSMS Work Group • Mark Hereth, Managing Director, The Blacksmith Group / P-PIC | |
| 10:30 – 10:45 | Break |
| 10:45 – 11:00 | Food For Thought Session – Queen Anne Ballroom |
| – Is PIPA dead because of the inability to address the real issues?– Carl Weimer – PIPA, moving slowly but making good progress to institutionalize risk informed planning – Christie Murray, Program Development Director, PHMSA | |
| 11:00 – 12:15 | General Session – Queen Anne Ballroom |
| Landowner panel – Wins, losses and grumblings • Ann Jarrell, Mayflower AR • David Gallagher, Ceresco, MI • Jennifer Baker, Monkton, VT | |
| 12:15 – 1:30 | Lunch – On Your Own |
| 1:30 – 2:45 | General Session – Queen Anne Ballroom |
| Who else helps drive safety? – Insurance companies, environmental groups, unions? • David Barnett, Special Representative, United Association of Plumbers and Pipefitters • Mark Hereth, Managing Director, The Blacksmith Group / P-PIC • Beth Wallace, Regional Community Outreach Coordinator, National Wildlife Federation • Lois Epstein, Arctic Program Director, The Wilderness Society |
2:45 – 3:00 General Session— Queen Anne Ballroom – Closing
